This from Robert Harland is applicable:
"I omitted from my initial email, though it was at the back of my mind,
a concrete comparison of the letter spacing on motorway signs in the UK,
USA and say, France. This is where the general (travelling) public do
see concrete examples of variable letter spacing, and where discussion
enters into the realms of visual culture, perhaps beyond what Per
Mollerup (2005) tells us about 'identification' and more towards what
Phil Baines alludes to matters of national identity (1999).
I'm wondering to what extent this contributes to understanding of our
own sense of place, national identity, and well-being. For example, when
I drive out of the Port of Dover in the UK from holidaying in France, I
feel good that I'm back on familiar territory again and not far from
home. In part, the motorway signs 'tell' me this by doing more than
identifying motorway. Might this extend into the realm of how
typographic design, and the wider aspects of graphic design, 'tell' us
more than the fact we have crossed a national boundary?"
A sense of place, a sense of identity created by our absorption of (and
adaptation to) "design signs" (Peirce), i.e, we design the world and the
world designs us, all this "tells" Robert that he is "home" = this is
another aspect to "wayfinding".
Johann
Johann van der Merwe
HOD: Research, History & Theory of Design
Faculty of Informatics and Design
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
South Africa
>>> Solvej Colfelt <[log in to unmask]> 04/13/11 10:32 AM >>>
Theres is no designrelated research studies in wayfinding (not
wayshowing).
Or is there ?
Best Regards
Solvej Colfelt
Phd-fellow, Master of Arch, reg Nurse
Aarhus School of Architecture
Noerreport 20
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Ph +45 50 48 68 30
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